Yale’s T.D. Ierlan one of five finalists for Tewaaraton Award

Yale’s TD Ierlan in a face-off battle with Penn State’s John Nostrant.

Yale’s TD Ierlan in a face-off battle with Penn State’s John Nostrant.

Photo: Steve Musco / Yale Atheltics

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Yale’s TD Ierlan in a face-off battle with Penn State’s John Nostrant.

Yale’s TD Ierlan in a face-off battle with Penn State’s John Nostrant.

Photo: Steve Musco / Yale Atheltics

Yale’s T.D. Ierlan one of five finalists for Tewaaraton Award

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NEW HAVEN — Yale junior T.D. Ierlan, the national leader in faceoff win percentage and ground balls, was named one of five finalists for the Tewaaraton Award as the top men’s lacrosse player in the nation.

Ierlan is on track to break his own Division I record for faceoff winning percentage in a season, a .791 mark set last spring while at Albany. He’s won 79.4 percent while averaging 14.6 ground balls per game.

On April 26 at Harvard, Ierlan set an NCAA record by winning all 26 faceoffs in a single game. He went 25-for-31 against Penn State in February as Yale handed the Nittany Lions their only loss of the season so far.

Ben Reeves, who holds nearly every Yale scoring record, became the first Bulldog to win the award after leading Yale to the national championship last season. He’d been a finalist the two seasons prior to that, making this the fourth successive season a Yale player has been among the Tewaaraton’s final five.